American Impressionist Art

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY “Birch Forest” is a monotype oil. The process is the simplest form of printmaking in a way because the artist does not etch or carve into a plate. Instead, a mono...

Watercolor of an old California mission. Signed lower right illegibly and dated 1940. Displayed in a brown wood frame with double matting. Shipped w...

An Enlightening Afternoon Near Oregonia - Watercolor Landscape on Paper A cool pond and walking trail sprawl below an autumn canopy of trees in complementary reds and purples accent...

"Lonely Rocks" - Original 1958 Watercolor on Paper Original watercolor painting of a woman in a red dress standing on rocks along the seashore by Bertram Spencer (American, 1918-199...

This artwork titled "Verdes, Loire et Cher, France" is an original lithograph by American artist Teall (La Verne Teall) Messer, 1897-1977. It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 36/40 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 10.65 x 13.65 inches, the sheet size is 14 x 21.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, especially considering the age of this piece. About the artist: Born in Dixon Illinois in 1897, Teall Messer dropped the name Lavern as soon as he came "of age". He went to New York to be an artist and intellectual. He hung out with the playwrights of the time and ended up with an award from the Rockefellers to go to Paris and study painting. This was in the 1920's. He stayed for several years in Paris being the stereotypical American painter there. He had contact with at least some of the famous painters and shared a studio with Alexander Calder. One story was that he and Alexander were dating two French sisters. The girls' mother told them to drop the Americans as they would never make much money. That was true for Teall, not so for Calder. He also knew Brancusi well enough to have a signed sketch dedicated "á Teall Messer avec amour". He knew Gertrude Stein well enough to heartily dislike her, considering her a phony. In France Teall married a member of the Byrd...

"Our Model T Garage" - Watercolor Landscape on Paper A rust-red barn sits below an autumn canopy of trees with contrasting blue background. Cool hues cast deep, brooding shadows opp...

Beautiful mid century seascape of the waves spilling over the rocks into the tide pool by Margaret Esther Rogers (British/American, 1872-1961). Si...

This artwork titled "St Raymonds Church" c.1960 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist...

BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN Artist's Statement: Big Rock Candy Mountain, a painting 60” X 40”, painted with acrylic & oil pigments on canvas, was inspired by many hiking trips to Enchan...

This artwork "Landscape with Trees" c.1970 is an oil painting on canvas by American artist Don Langford. It is signed at the lower right corner b...

This artwork "Woman with Roses" is an oil painting on hardboard by noted American artist Katherine Gillespie, 1878-1945. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 13.5 x 11.5 inches, framed size is 18.25 x 16.25 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with fabric and gold liner. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Born in Crawford County, MO on March 15, 1878. Katherine Miller was listed as an artist in the San Jose City Directory of 1900 and soon thereafter married Harvey Gillespie. She was a close friend and painting partner of artist Bertha Stringer Lee and served as maid of honor...

Eugenie M. Heller A Sunny Corner, circa 1900 Signed lower right Oil on board 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches Eugenie M. Heller (1867 - 1952) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts. Heller studied with Weir, Whistler, Amen-Jean, Grasset and Rodin. Eugenie Heller...

Substantially framed contemporary limited edition giclée print on canvas of a beautiful plein air impressionist landscape painting by California artist Donald R. Britton (American, b.20th Century), 2007. Some small areas of oil paint highlights added to canvas print by the artist. The landscape features a calm mountain stream flowing past large boulders and yellow autumn trees, with tall majestic mountains in the background. Hand signed lower right "DR Britton" with the edition number 11/100. Signed and dated in the print "DR Britton '07", lower left. Displayed in a custom rustic style contemporary wood frame with linen liner and gold trim. Canvas size: 20"H x 16"W. Don Britton is a contemporary representational landscape painter of the western US with focus on the southwest, the Pacific coast and the Sierras. Recent Awards and Publications: 2019: Juror's Purchase Award, "Pacific Bluffs" at Art for Heaven's Sake Annual Art Festival, Redlands, CA 2016: First Place,"Land Put to A Higher Use", The 9th Annual Ralph Love Plein Air Competition in Temecula, CA 2014: "Canyon Clouds" and "Carmel Wetlands" were juried in to the Museum of the Art Institute Regional Show in San Diego 2012: "View from Mather Point" was selected for installation in the US Embassy in Sri Lanka. 2011: "On the Rocks" selected as a finalist in the Artist's Magazine annual national competition. 2010 - "Your Composition Should Evoke an Emotion" feature article in International Artist, pp 52-59, vol 70, 2010 2010 - "Morning Becomes the Valley" and "Lamoille Canyon" selected for installation in the US Embassy in Yemen 2010 - Grant from Nevada Arts Council 2008 - Grant from Nevada Arts Council 2007 - Paint America National Competition Top 50 Miniatures 2007 - First Place, Oil Painting, Carson Valley Art Association Annual Exhibit Artist’s Statement: I have been surrounded by artists virtually all my life. I received my first drawing instruction at the age of six from my father. We were living in New Mexico at the time and he was an avid amateur landscape painter there. Although I dabbled in painting off and on for years, my first career took a different path. Following a BA from the University of Colorado and a PhD from The Ohio State University I entered a career in neuroscience research. However, in 2004, I committed to painting full time and was almost immediately rewarded with the joy of recreating scenes I loved. I am indebted to numerous mentors along the way including Mark Tompkins, Skip Whitcomb, William Scott Jennings, Jim Wilcox...

About the artist: As an American artist, Wright’s travels have taken him to paint and/or teach throughout the United States and visiting over a dozen National Park sites in addition...

Beautiful watercolor painting depicting a side view of the Santa Cruz Wharf by Beth Teall Wilkins (American, 1906-1992). Alice Elizabeth Teall (Beth T. Wilkins) was born in Moline, I...

Artist: Abraham Rosenthal, American (1886 - 1963) Title: Rocky Shoreline Year: 1957 Medium: Oil on Canvas Board, signed Size: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60....

Beautiful colorful impressionist landscape of Bay Area rural hills of Woodside, California barn by artist C. Romero (American, 20th Century), c.1990. Signed lower right corner. Pres...

Herman Palmer (American, 1894-1946) Two Animals, 20th century Mixed media on board Sight size: 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. Framed: 18 1/4 x 21 in. Signed lower right: Herman Palmer Herman...

Seated Female Nude in Charcoal on Paper Figurative piece with a nude woman by Santa Cruz and San Francisco artist Heather Speck (American, b. 1978). The model is seated, with her he...

Joseph Margulies (1896-1984). Blue Vase with Roses, ca. 1950. Gouache on paper, image measures 19 x 23 inches. Measuring 26.5 x 30.5 inches framed. Signed lower right. Double-...

This artwork "Still Life with Bottles and Ducks" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is 22 x 26 inches. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Clifford Holmes, noted California artist. The artist is a descendent of early California pioneer families and is a former member of the Art League. Among the founders of the Oakland Art...

Charming portrait of a young girl with red hair wearing a typical mid-century frilly dress and high-cut bangs, by an unknown artist (American,...

About the artist: As an American artist, Wright’s travels have taken him to paint and/or teach throughout the United States and visiting over a dozen National Park sites in addition...

"California Lupines" Landscape in Oil on Wood Panel Oil painting of the California wildflowers by Max Flandorfer (American, b. 1962). The viewer...

Vibrant modernist self-portrait by California artist Sandra Lobue-Erba (American, 1945-2007). Signed lower middle edge. Unframed. Image: 21"H x 20"W. Provenance: Purchased from art...

This artwork titled "Princeton, California" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is 20 x 24 inches. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Clifford Holmes, noted California artist. The artist is a descendent of early California pioneer families and is a former member of the Art League. Among the founders of the Oakland Art...

English Impressionist sketch of yachts sailing off the English Channel Charles Bertie Hall is a painter from England and America. He painted in a...

Sailing Regatta Under the Golden Gate Bridge - Seascape in Oil on Canvas Colorful depiction of sailboats in San Francisco Bay by unknown artist "Schutz" (20th Century). A sailboat w...

Richard Shepard, American (1926 - 2000) - He Knows Life, Year: 1981, Medium: Mixed Media on Paper, signed in pencil, Size: 23 x 19 in. (58.42 x 48.26 cm), Frame Size: 32 x 28 inc...

"Looking out the Window", a Bay Area figurative painting with two nude figures gazing out of a window at the San Francisco Bay by Patricia Gren-Hayes (A...

This artwork titled "Waiting Game" 1991 is a color offset lithograph by noted African/American artist Yvonne Cole Meo, 1923-2016. It is hand signed, da...

Vibrant impressionist pastel still-life of red tomatoes by California artist Karen Colby (American, 20th Century). Signed "Karen Colby" and dated "1-95" lower right. Presented in a b...

Mid-Century Charleston, South Carolina Small-Scale Landscape by Virginia Rogers Lovely small-scale landscape of Charleston, South Carolina by listed California artist Virginia Sevi...

"Lazy Day in the Country" - Mid Century Pastoral Farm Landscape with Barn Pastoral mid-century landscape of a farm with an old barn by Shirley Gilman (American, 1924-2008), circa 19...

Frozen Pond Landscape in Watercolor on Paper Serene watercolor of a pond in winter by an unknown artist named Stow. Signed "Stow" in the lower right co...

Mid-century self-portrait by California artist Myrtle Cureton (American, 1909-2000). Signed "Myrtle Cureton" lower left. Artist's Santa Cruz Art League ...

"Mono Hot Springs Cabins, Fresno Co - Calif" Forest Landscape in Oil on Board Serene depiction of two cabins in the Sierra Mountains by HW Dittmann (Dittman) (American, Born-1883 circa). A wooden...

Beautiful mid-century small-scale watercolor landscape of fishermen with their boats on the shore by unknown artist. Signed lower left corner illegibly. Circa 1940's. Unframed. Image...

Abstract Still Life with Roses and Coffee Set in Watercolor on Paper Colorful still life with flowers and a coffee pot by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). A brig...

Elk in the Forest - Plein Aire Landscape in Acrylic on Board Lush Western landscape by California Plein Aire artist Nick White (American, 1943-2009). Several elk are grazing in a cl...

Vibrant landscape by California artist Grace Sidwell (American, 1920-2013). Bright blue, red and white flowers carpet the foreground, with a dirt path c...

Summer Seas, Mid-Century Asilomar California Seascape by William Clothier Watts A beautiful and substantial mid-century seascape by William Clo...

Max Kuehne (1880 - 1968) Train Station, circa 1910 Watercolor on paper 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Illinois Max Kuehne was born in Halle, Germany on November 7, 1880. During his adolescence the family immigrated to America and settled in Flushing, New York. As a young man, Max was active in rowing events, bicycle racing, swimming and sailing. After experimenting with various occupations, Kuehne decided to study art, which led him to William Merritt Chase's famous school in New York; he was trained by Chase himself, then by Kenneth Hayes Miller. Chase was at the peak of his career, and his portraits were especially in demand. Kuehne would have profited from Chase's invaluable lessons in technique, as well as his inspirational personality. Miller, only four years older than Kuehne, was another of the many artists to benefit from Chase's teachings. Even though Miller still would have been under the spell of Chase upon Kuehne's arrival, he was already experimenting with an aestheticism that went beyond Chase's realism and virtuosity of the brush. Later Miller developed a style dependent upon volumetric figures that recall Italian Renaissance prototypes. Kuehne moved from Miller to Robert Henri in 1909. Rockwell Kent, who also studied under Chase, Miller, and Henri, expressed what he felt were their respective contributions: "As Chase had taught us to use our eyes, and Henri to enlist our hearts, Miller called on us to use our heads." (Rockwell Kent, It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1955, p. 83). Henri prompted Kuehne to search out the unvarnished realities of urban living; a notable portion of Henri's stylistic formula was incorporated into his work. Having received such a thorough foundation in art, Kuehne spent a year in Europe's major art museums to study techniques of the old masters. His son Richard named Ernest Lawson as one of Max Kuehne's European traveling companions. In 1911 Kuehne moved to New York where he maintained a studio and painted everyday scenes around him, using the rather Manet-like, dark palette of Henri. A trip to Gloucester during the following summer engendered a brighter palette. In the words of Gallatin (1924, p. 60), during that summer Kuehne "executed some of his most successful pictures, paintings full of sunlight . . . revealing the fact that he was becoming a colorist of considerable distinction." Kuehne was away in England the year of the Armory Show (1913), where he worked on powerful, painterly seascapes on the rocky shores of Cornwall. Possibly inspired by Henri - who had discovered Madrid in 1900 then took classes there in 1906, 1908 and 1912 - Kuehne visited Spain in 1914; in all, he would spend three years there, maintaining a studio in Granada. He developed his own impressionism and a greater simplicity while in Spain, under the influence of the brilliant Mediterranean light. George Bellows convinced Kuehne to spend the summer of 1919 in Rockport, Maine (near Camden). The influence of Bellows was more than casual; he would have intensified Kuehne's commitment to paint life "in the raw" around him. After another brief trip to Spain in 1920, Kuehne went to the other Rockport (Cape Ann, Massachusetts) where he was accepted as a member of the vigorous art colony, spearheaded by Aldro T. Hibbard. Rockport's picturesque ambiance fulfilled the needs of an artist-sailor: as a writer in the Gloucester Daily Times explained, "Max Kuehne came to Rockport to paint, but he stayed to sail." The 1920s was a boom decade for Cape Ann, as it was for the rest of the nation. Kuehne's studio in Rockport was formerly occupied by Jonas Lie. Kuehne spent the summer of 1923 in Paris, where in July, André Breton started a brawl as the curtain went up on a play by his rival Tristan Tzara; the event signified the demise of the Dada movement. Kuehne could not relate to this avant-garde art but was apparently influenced by more traditional painters — the Fauves, Nabis, and painters such as Bonnard. Gallatin perceived a looser handling and more brilliant color in the pictures Kuehne brought back to the States in the fall. In 1926, Kuehne won the First Honorable Mention at the Carnegie Institute, and he re-exhibited there, for example, in 1937 (Before the Wind). Besides painting, Kuehne did sculpture, decorative screens, and furniture work with carved and gilded molding. In addition, he designed and carved his own frames, and John Taylor Adams encouraged Kuehne to execute etchings. Through his talents in all these media he was able to survive the Depression, and during the 1940s and 1950s these activities almost eclipsed his easel painting. In later years, Kuehne's landscapes and still-lifes show the influence of Cézanne and Bonnard, and his style changed radically. Max Kuehne died in 1968. He exhibited his work at the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, and in various New York City galleries. Kuehne's works are in the following public collections: the Detroit Institute of Arts (Marine Headland), the Whitney Museum (Diamond Hill...

Palm Springs Courtyard with Fountain - Drypoint Etching on Paper Stately drypoint etching of the courtyard of a Palm Springs house by Leland "Lee" Fuller (American, 1899-1962). The focus of this piece is the courtyard of a house with a fountain. Behind the garden and fountain, there is a section of the house with an arched doorway and tile roof. This was likely a house that Fuller designed. From the Robert Azensky Fine Art Mary Pickford...

Robin Hill, Australian (1932 - ) - Study of The Green Chimney Oil, Year: 1992, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, Size: 8 x 11 in. (20.32 x 27.94 cm), Frame Size: 11 x 14 inches

A beautiful, atmospheric forest scene by American artist Gary Hicks (American, 20th Century), c.1970's. A small trail invites the viewer into this misty forest landscape, where layer...

Stunning mid-century fauvist still life of flowers and fruit by California artist Virginia Sevier Rogers (American, 1916-2015). Signed and dated "VR 7/65" lower right. From the estat...

"Teepee/Indian Village" is an original oil painting on wood panel by Charles Damrow. The artist signed and dated the piece in the lower left. This paint...

Figurative ink and wash drawing of beagles and a terrier leading the hunter to the quarry by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Displayed in a rustic black and bro...

This artwork " Woman in a Chair 1937" is a watercolor on thin paper by noted California (German/American) artist Ernst Stolz, 1901-1989. It is signed and dated...

Modernist Rocky Seascape in Watercolor on Paper A vibrant watercolor seascape by California artist Lucile Marie Johnston (1907-1994, American). Waves crash in among a group of brown...

Intricate landscape etching of a park by an unknown artist. Signed illegibly "Partek or Partch". Signed, titled "Children's Park", and numbered (AP) along the lower edge. Presented i...

This artwork "Landscape #II" c.2000 is an original color monotype by American artist Thomas (Tom) Monaghan, b. 1961. It is hand signed and numbered 1/1 in pencil by the artist. The i...

Kevin Weckbach's (US based) "Fall Tapestry" is an original, hand made oil painting that depicts a closeup view of leaves in fall, ablaze with yellow and ...

Pilots - Double-sided Figurative Composition in Oil on Paper Expressive figurative compositions by Carmel, California artist David Amland (American, 1931-2010). On one side, a pilot...

Topo Chico Still-life Contemporary Texan Artist Brushstrokes Sparkling Water 12' x 9" framed Max Guarnaccia paints from objects like bottles, florals and portraits that he sets up ...

Subtly-toned autumn scene by Sydney Cooper (American, 19th-20th C.). This is piece is composed of subdued fall tones - tan, pale green, and coppery reds. A blue stream cuts through t...

Vibrant miniature landscape by Kathleen Murray (American, (American, b. 1958). Signed "MURRAY" in the lower left corner, but it is very difficult to read due to the color. "#12 The Landing...

This artwork "California Landscape with Farm" 1943 is a watercolor on paper by noted California (German/American) artist Ernst Stolz, 1901-1989. It is signed and dated at the lower r...

Gorgeous landscape oil painting of winter pond by H.A. Brown (American, 20th Century). Presented in a giltwood frame. Signed "Brown" lower left...